Dream Act Gains Momentum in Congress
Hello everyone! The DREAM Act has been a hot topic in Washington today, after news that in the coming weeks the Senate will take up the bipartisan legislation to help 50,000 students.
The DREAM Act would allow immigrant students with good character to obtain conditional permanent resident status after high school graduation, and then apply for citizenship if they successfully graduate from two years of college or serve two years in the armed forces.
Lily is in the midst of speaking events and unable to post a new blog entry, but as you know she has been an outspoken support of the DREAM Act.
I am the daughter of an immigrant. I am living my mother’s American Dream. I went to college on scholarships and students loans and as a starving folk singer. This great country made an investment in my dream to become a teacher, and I like to think it was a good investment.
Imagine us making that investment in these children’s dreams. Giving these good, hard-working, visionary children the same opportunity to walk across a stage and graduate and to walk towards something better. To walk out
